ANYTHING

I. ˈenēˌthiŋ, -niˌ-, often -_thiŋ or -_thēŋ when another word follows without pause pronoun

Etymology: Middle English anything, enything from Old English ǣnig thing, from ǣnig any + thing

: any thing whatever : something or other : aught

does not include anything he does not need — E.R.Bentley

don't bother to do anything about it — W.J.Reilly

II. adverb

Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ǣngi thinga to any extent, inst. of ǣnig thing anything

: in any measure : to any extent : at all

if the remaining books … are anything up to the standard of those already published — Times Literary Supplement

III. noun

Etymology: anything (I)

: thing of whatever kind : thing of any sort

my horse, my ox, my ass, my anything — Shakespeare